Wole Soyinka
Author
Language
English
Description
"In an imaginary Nigeria, a cunning entrepreneur is selling body parts stolen from Dr Menka's hospital for use in ritualistic practices. Dr Menka shares the grisly news with his oldest college friend, bon viveur, star engineer and Yoruba royal, Duyole Pitan-Payne. The life of every party, Duyole is about to assume a prestigious post at the United Nations in New York, but it now seems that someone is determined that he not make it there. And neither...
Author
Series
Galaxy book ; 392
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1973-<1974>
Language
English
Description
Winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize for Literature, this Nigerian poet, playwright, and novelist writes of the rich cultural traditions as well as the hopes and frustrations of black Africa. This two-volume collection of his plays includes A Dance of the Forests, The Swamp Dwellers, The Strong Breed, The Road, and The Bacchae of Euripides in the first volume, and The Lion and the Jewel, Kongi's Harvest, The Trials of Brother Jero, Jero's Metamorphosis,...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
In The Open Sore of a Continent, Soyinka, whose own Nigerian passport was confiscated by General Abacha in 1994, explores the history and future of Nigeria in a compelling jeremiad that is as intense as it is provocative, learned, and wide-ranging. He deftly explains the shifting dramatic personae of Nigerian history and politics to Westerners unfamiliar with the players and the process, tracing the growth of Nigeria as a player in the world economy,...
7) Of Africa
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A member of the unique generation of African writers and intellectuals who came of age in the last days of colonialism, the author has witnessed the promise of independence and lived through postcolonial failure. He deeply comprehends the pressing problems of Africa, and, as an irrepressible essayist and a staunch critic of the oppressive boot, he unhesitatingly speaks out. In this work, he offers a wide-ranging inquiry into Africa's culture, religion,...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
By "unquestionably Africa's most versatile writer and arguably her finest" (New York Times), Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka, Art, Dialogue, and Outrage is a fierce and provocative contribution to the debate on multi-culturalism. This volume brings together nineteen iconoclastic essays from the past twenty-five years on African, European, and American literature, culture, and politics - many of which are published here for the first time. Whether he is...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1989]
Language
English
Description
In 1984, two years after writing his classic childhood autobiography Aké, Wole Soyinka opened a tin box that had belonged to his father, a schoolteacher during Nigera's Colonial period. The simple contents of this box -- "a handful of letters, old journals with jottings, tax and other levy receipts, minutes of meetings and school reports, program notes of special events" -- provide the fuel for this second installment of Soyinka's memoirs: a son's...
Author
Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
"Once repression stops, is reconciliation between oppressor and victim possible? In the face of centuries long devastions wrought on the African continent and her Diaspora by slavery, colonialism, Apartheid, and the manifold faces of racism, what form of recompense could possibly be adequate?"--Jacket.
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The Hay Festival brings its 39 Project to Port Harcourt, Nigeria, to identify the most promising writing talents under the age of 40 from Sub-Saharan Africa and its diaspora. From the list of 39 writers chosen by the judges, editor Allfrey has selected stories, extracts from novels, and other writings, many never before published, to create a collection of some of the most varied and exciting new work in world literature.
